"Listen to our extended version of this episode on any podcasting platform: Have you ever wondered if there are parallel ...

Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of ...

This year, scientists studying collisions of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — an “atom smasher” ...

China is nearing completion of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a $300 million facility designed to ...

Physicists are closer than ever to answering fundamental questions about the origins of the universe by learning more about ...

One question researchers hope neutrinos can help answer is why the universe is overwhelmingly made up of matter with its opposing counterpart — called antimatter — largely snuffed out. Scientists ...

One of the leading theories to explain this disparity is charge–parity (CP) violation, a phenomenon predicted by the Standard ...

Harnessing this energy could make voyages to the outer reaches of the Solar System — or even to neighboring stars — feasible ...

In the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts. But fast forward 13.8 billion years to the ...

Getting places in space quickly has been the goal of propulsion research for a long time. Rockets, our most common means of ...

But shortly after the big bang, most of the antimatter disappeared, leaving behind the tiny portion of matter that constitutes the universe we live in today. What happened to swing the balance away ...

The Universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. Shortly after the Big Bang, it was hot and dense, preventing the existence of atoms and prompting matter formation in the form of electrons, ...